Two days before Oxford College’s commencement ceremony, Dean Douglas Hicks sat in his office on the fourth floor of Seney Hall. From his prime view of the quad below, he overlooked the stage where he would send off second-year students to the Atlanta campus for the sixth year in a row. This year, he joined [...]
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“Thank you, Atlanta,” Dominic Fike said, pretending to walk off stage after opening his set with his hit song “Come Here.” From Fike’s April Fool’s joke to the many hats Bryce Vine wore during his set to Taylor Bennett’s impressive stage presence, Student Programming Council's (SPC) Dooley's Palooza on April 1 more than made up [...]
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FiveThirtyEight founder and data journalist Nate Silver predicted a grim outlook for Democrats in the upcoming U.S. Senate elections and addressed the possible effects the war in Ukraine could have on the midterms at a Feb. 24 event at Emory University. Founded in 2008, FiveThirtyEight is a website and blog which emphasizes statistical analysis in [...]
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Emory University’s Board of Trustees approved an increase in undergraduate tuition from $54,660 to $57,120 for the 2022-23 academic year on Jan. 28, a 4.5% increase from the current cost. Combined with additional fees and room and board, there will be an overall 4.4% increase from $71,771 to $74,964. The Board voted to make this [...]
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After 105 students graduated from Emory’s Oxford College last fall, a semester earlier than the rest of their peers, some students reported feelings of isolation and a loss of their sense of community during the virtual spring start to classes on the Atlanta campus. Oxford students normally matriculate to the Atlanta campus after two years, [...]
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